American witches : a broomstick tour through four centuries / Susan Fair.
Material type: TextPublisher: New York : Skyhorse Publishing, [2016]Description: 303 pages, 8 unnumbered pages : illustrations ; 23 cmContent type:- text
- unmediated
- volume
- 1510703802
- 9781510703803
Item type | Home library | Collection | Call number | Materials specified | Status | Notes | Date due | Barcode | Item holds | |
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Adult Book | Dr. James Carlson Library | NonFiction | 133.43 F163 | Available | Light water damage noted. 9/26/22 | 33111008562445 |
Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
The history of American witches is way weirder than you ever imagined. From bewitched pigs hell-bent on revenge to gruesome twentieth-century murders, American Witches reveals strange incidents of witchcraft that have long been swept under the rug as bizarre sidenotes to history.
On a tour through history that's both whimsical and startling, we'll encounter seventeenth-century children flying around inside their New England home "like geese." We'll meet a father-son team of pious Puritans who embarked on a mission that involved undressing ladies and overseeing hangings. And on the eve of the Civil War, we'll accompany a reporter as he dons a dress and goes searching for witches in New York City's most dangerous neighborhoods.
Entertainingly readable and rich in amazing details often left out of today's texts, American Witches casts a flickering torchlight into the dark corners of American history.
"The history of American witches is way weirder than you ever imagined. From bewitched pigs hell-bent on revenge to gruesome twentieth-century murders, American Witches reveals strange incidents of witchcraft that have long been swept under the rug as bizarre sidenotes to history. On a tour through history that’s both whimsical and startling, we’ll encounter seventeenth-century children flying around inside their New England home “like geese.” We’ll meet a father-son team of pious Puritans who embarked on a mission that involved undressing ladies and overseeing hangings. And on the eve of the Civil War, we’ll accompany a reporter as he dons a dress and goes searching for witches in New York City’s most dangerous neighborhoods. Entertainingly readable and rich in amazing details often left out of today’s texts, American Witches casts a flickering torchlight into the dark corners of American history."--Page [2] of cover.
America's starter witches. A field guide to the American witch ; Witches on a ship ; First offenders: early witchcraft cases in the American colonies ; Native nightmares -- Witchcraft takes off. Predatory pigs, phantom puppies, and other sinister sidekicks ; Hell comes to Hartford: America's starter Salem ; An inconvenient witch: the story of Eunice Cole -- Slouching toward Salem. The Goodwins' very bad year: the weirdest case of witchcraft in American history? ; What's the Mather with witches? ; Salem by the numbers -- After Salem. Lifestyles of the witch and infamous: the black arts and bad neighborhoods of the witches of New York ; Christian Science and the last witch trial in American history (so far) ; Bad times in Booger Hole ; The York hex murder: a twentieth-century witch hunt gone wrong -- Witch awards. Outstanding moments in American witchcraft -- Epilogue. The reign of the Blair witch: how a made-up witch took on a life of her own and terrorized a town.